A214 crash in Bromley on 13 October 1988 at 19:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A214 in Bromley at 19:15 on Thursday 13 October 1988. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 1988
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40589, longitude -0.05731, in the SE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801PR00632
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 214
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 28 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401PY20666
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 29 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PR00523
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A214 in Bromley, 24 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201001PY20168
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A214 in Bromley, 16 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PY00912
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A214 in Bromley, 9 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PY00560
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A214 in Bromley, 28 May 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010379131
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 198801PR00632 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromley road accident statistics for 1988.